Improvement in revolving horse hay-rakes



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EnwIN w. TUCKER, or GRAND HAvEN, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING HORSE HAV-RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,199, dated February 3, 1874; application filed March 7, 1873.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, ERwIN W. TUCKER, of Grand Haven, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, he ve invented certain Improvements in that class of Horse Rakes guided and held in the grooves in the brackets as the rake-head revolves, so that the rakehead and handle-frame are at all times bound together, and lateral play ot' these parts in a great degree prevented. y

Figure l is a side view ot my revolving horse-rake. Fig. 2 is a cross-section, and Fig. 3 is an elevation, of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the rake-head, provided with teeth T T, which extend on both sides of the rake-head, and stops o o. O is the draw-frame, having' metallic loops a a at the lower ends of its vertical standards, which encircle the rake-head, and allow thelatter to revolve upon the draw-frame.

' d d are wooden spring-stops, which are attached to the draw-fra1ne, and press upon the rake-teeth to hold them down to their work. B-is the handle, to the inner ends of the side bars of which are attached brackets b b, having grooves c c', (see Fig. 3,) on the under surfaces of their lower ends, in which ride the stops o o, when the handle is elevated to cause the rake to revolve. a a are notches, which are situated at the ends of the grooves c c in the lower faces of the brackets, in which the stops o o rest in the operation of raking, thus binding the rake-head to the handleframe as the rake is drawn along, and also as it revolves, the stops o omoving in the grooves c c during the revolution of the rake-head. S S are stirrnps attached to the inner endso' the longitudinal pieces ot' the drawing-frame, upon which the frame ot' the handle rests.

I claim as new- The brackets b b, attached to the lower ends of the handle-frame, and having their under surfaces pro vided with grooves c c', terminated by notches a a', in combination with the rakehead A, having stops 0 o, substantially as dcscribed, for the purpose set forth.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have set my hand this 1st day of March, 1873.

ERVIN IV. TUCKER. [IL s] Titnesses C. C. CASE, WM. H. BROWN. 

